Plasma nanoscience: from nano-solids in plasmas to nano-plasmas in solids

K Ostrikov, EC Neyts, M Meyyappan - Advances in Physics, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The unique plasma-specific features and physical phenomena in the organization of
nanoscale soild-state systems in a broad range of elemental composition, structure, and …

Development, applications and challenges of ReaxFF reactive force field in molecular simulations

Y Han, D Jiang, J Zhang, W Li, Z Gan, J Gu - Frontiers of Chemical …, 2016 - Springer
As an advanced and new technology in molecular simulation fields, ReaxFF reactive force
field has been developed and widely applied during the last two decades. ReaxFF bridges …

Stress effects on the initial lithiation of crystalline silicon nanowires: reactive molecular dynamics simulations using ReaxFF

A Ostadhossein, ED Cubuk, GA Tritsaris… - Physical Chemistry …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Silicon (Si) has been recognized as a promising anode material for the next-generation high-
capacity lithium (Li)-ion batteries because of its high theoretical energy density. Recent in …

Molecular dynamics simulations for plasma‐surface interactions

EC Neyts, P Brault - Plasma Processes and Polymers, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Plasma‐surface interactions are in general highly complex due to the interplay of many
concurrent processes. Molecular dynamics simulations provide insight in some of these …

Oxygen interactions with silica surfaces: Coupled cluster and density functional investigation and the development of a new ReaxFF potential

AD Kulkarni, DG Truhlar… - The Journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We consider oxygen interactions with realistic silica surfaces, including both experimentally
observed nondefective surface reconstructions and experimentally observed surface …

Atomic-scale simulations of reactive oxygen plasma species interacting with bacterial cell walls

M Yusupov, EC Neyts, U Khalilov… - New Journal of …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
In recent years there has been growing interest in the use of low-temperature atmospheric
pressure plasmas for biomedical applications. Currently, however, there is very little …

Influence of vacancy defects on the thermal stability of silicene: a reactive molecular dynamics study

GR Berdiyorov, FM Peeters - Rsc advances, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The effect of vacancy defects on the structural properties and the thermal stability of free
standing silicene–a buckled structure of hexagonally arranged silicon atoms–is studied …

Combining molecular dynamics with Monte Carlo simulations: implementations and applications

EC Neyts, A Bogaerts - Theoretical Chemistry in Belgium: A Topical …, 2014 - Springer
In this contribution, we present an overview of the various techniques for combining
atomistic molecular dynamics with Monte Carlo simulations, mainly in the context of …

Interaction of O and OH radicals with a simple model system for lipids in the skin barrier: a reactive molecular dynamics investigation for plasma medicine

J Van der Paal, S Aernouts… - Journal of Physics D …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Plasma medicine has been claimed to provide a novel route to heal wounds and regenerate
skin, although very little is currently known about the elementary processes taking place. We …

Reactive dynamics simulation of monolayer and multilayer adsorption of glycine on Cu (110)

S Monti, C Li, V Carravetta - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2013 - ACS Publications
The process of mono-and multilayer adsorption of glycine on copper surface Cu (110) and
the preferred binding modes of the molecule were studied theoretically by means of …